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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/nyt/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "nyt",
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "domain": "nytimes.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "U.S. national newspaper of record, founded 1851. Pulitzer Prize record + investigative depth + structured-data-rich web platform.",
    "founded": 1851,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "A — top-tier US journalism; high velocity + strong discipline; Modern Reference slightly hampered by paywall.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 82 + Velocity 92."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Multi-source verification; fact-check + corrections processes public; named bylines + editor accountability.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Public corrections",
          "detail": "Daily corrections column dating back decades."
        },
        {
          "label": "Editor accountability",
          "detail": "Public editor / standards editor roles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 82,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Paywall metering",
          "detail": "Subscription gate; partial corpus availability."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 92,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Cited many times daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets news cycle.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "News-cycle setting",
          "detail": "NYT exclusives drive same-day coverage across global media."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}